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Calculation of weak protein-protein interactions: the pH dependence of the second virial coefficient.

Abstract：

:Interactions between proteins are often sufficiently weak that their study through the use of conventional structural techniques becomes problematic. Of the few techniques capable of providing experimental measures of weak protein-protein interactions, perhaps the most useful is the second virial coefficient, B(22), which quantifies a protein solution's deviations from ideal behavior. It has long been known that B(22) can in principle be computed, but only very recently has it been demonstrated that such calculations can be performed using protein models of true atomic detail (Biophys. J. 1998, 75:2469-2477). The work reported here extends these previous efforts in an attempt to develop a transferable energetic model capable of reproducing the experimental trends obtained for two different proteins over a range of pH and ionic strengths. We describe protein-protein interaction energies by a combination of three separate terms: (i) an electrostatic interaction term based on the use of effective charges, (ii) a term describing the electrostatic desolvation that occurs when charged groups are buried by an approaching protein partner, and (iii) a solvent-accessible surface area term that is used to describe contributions from van der Waals and hydrophobic interactions. The magnitude of the third term is governed by an adjustable, empirical parameter, gamma, that is altered to optimize agreement between calculated and experimental values of B(22). The model is applied separately to the proteins lysozyme and chymotrypsinogen, yielding optimal values of gamma that are almost identical. There are, however, clear difficulties in reproducing B(22) values at the extremes of pH. Explicit calculation of the protonation states of ionizable amino acids in the 200 most energetically favorable protein-protein structures suggest that these difficulties are due to a neglect of the protonation state changes that can accompany complexation. Proper reproduction of the pH dependence of B(22) will, therefore, almost certainly require that account be taken of these protonation state changes. Despite this problem, the fact that almost identical gamma values are obtained from two different proteins suggests that the basic energetic formulation used here, which can be evaluated very rapidly, might find use in dynamical simulations of weak protein-protein interactions at intermediate pH values.

journal_name

Biophys J

journal_title

Biophysical journal

authors

Elcock AH,McCammon JA

doi

10.1016/S0006-3495(01)76042-0

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2001-02-01 00:00:00

pages

613-25

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eissn

0006-3495

issn

1542-0086

pii

S0006-3495(01)76042-0

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Calculation of weak protein-protein interactions: the pH dependence of the second virial coefficient.